Hotel Bazar Afrika

Hotel Bazar, Rotterdam (NL)

client

Hotel Bazar Rotterdam

location

Hotel Bazar, Rotterdam (NL)

completion

2003

surface

320 m2

status

interior

concept/design A world hotel – Hotel Bazar – was designed above the multicultural Bazar restaurant in Rotterdam. Several floors of office space became vacant in this office block dating from the fifties. These could then be transformed into part of the hotel. A different continent was taken as a source of inspiration for each floor. The idea is that the hotel visitor is fully immersed for one night in a totally different ambience than that of daily life. Following the thousand and one nights and South America floors, designed earlier by Kossmann.dejong in 2000, the third floor has now been developed with the theme of Africa. Each room represents a different country and a different African culture or tribe. Eleven totally different rooms, freely translated, never literally.